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Licences, conversions and pages: how the pricing compares

MoneyThumb sells its converters three ways. There are Windows desktop licences: Pro+ is a lifetime licence with one year of PDF+, Pro is a lifetime licence without PDF+, and Express is a 50-day licence that includes PDF+, with discounts of 20% to 35% for two to fifty seats. There are online, on-demand plans, starting at $24.95 for five statement conversions a month. And there is PDF Convert Server for companies that want to run conversion on their own servers, from $0.50 per statement conversion, where unused conversions roll over at renewal. Desktop converter bundles have been listed at $599.95 to $699.95.

MoneyThumb counts conversions: each account on each monthly statement is one conversion, however many pages it has. FlowParse counts pages. A two-page checking statement is one MoneyThumb conversion and two FlowParse pages; a twelve-page business statement is still one conversion but twelve pages. So for long statements MoneyThumb's unit is kinder, and for short ones the difference is small.

FlowParse gives every account 10 free pages a month with no time limit. Beyond that you can buy page packs that never expire — €5 for 100, €29 for 500, €79 for 2,000 — or a monthly plan: Starter €15 for 300 pages, Pro €49 for 1,000, Business €99 for 3,000. Every format, the bank-feed files included, comes with every option, and so does OCR for scans.

The QBO file itself

Both tools exist mainly to produce a .QBO file QuickBooks will take. FlowParse writes it as OFX 1.0.2 in the format QuickBooks' Web Connect import expects, gives each transaction a stable ID so that importing the same statement twice does not post it twice, sets the ledger balance to the statement's closing balance, and writes card statements as credit card accounts rather than checking. A QFX for Quicken and a plain OFX come from the same upload.

Dates are a quiet source of wrong files. A US statement printing 07/05/2026 means 5 July; read the European way it becomes 7 May, and every transaction in the first twelve days of a month lands in the wrong month. FlowParse decides the order from the whole date column of the statement — a single 07/19 is enough to prove month-first — before converting any date, so the .QBO carries the dates the bank meant. The PDF to QBO converter page walks through the QuickBooks import, and bank statement to Quicken covers Quicken.

A year of statements in one workbook

MoneyThumb converts statement by statement. FlowParse adds Smart Merge for the job that follows: putting a year of statements, from one bank or several, into one workbook with a column naming the source file of every row. Statements are put in date order whatever order you uploaded them in; the closing balance of each is compared with the opening balance of the next one for the same account, so a missing month shows up as a break in the chain; and a transaction that appears identically in two files is flagged, because that usually means a duplicated upload or overlapping periods.

Those checks warn and leave the decision to you — they never delete a row, because a repeated charge inside one statement is often real. Smart Merge needs a free account and takes up to 5 files on the free tier, 20 on Starter and 100 on Pro.

Which one to choose

Choose MoneyThumb if you want a lifetime licence on a Windows PC, if statements must never leave your own machine, if you convert QIF, OFX or CSV files into QBO, or if you are a lender who needs its analysis and authenticity tools. Those are its home ground.

A useful way to decide is to look at what you actually receive from clients. If most of what arrives is finished files — QIF exports, OFX downloads, CSVs from online banking — a converter that changes one file format into another is the tool you need, and MoneyThumb does that well. If most of what arrives is PDFs, scans and phone photos of statements, the hard part is reading the document correctly and proving that nothing was missed, which is where FlowParse puts its effort: every statement checked against its balances, card statements against their summary, and a year merged with the balance chain checked between months. Many practices receive both kinds, and there is no reason not to use each tool for the part it is built for.

Choose FlowParse if you work from PDFs and photos in the browser, on a Mac or several machines, if you want each statement checked against its balances before export, if you assemble a year into one workbook, or if you want to start free and buy pages that never expire. For the wider market see the comparison of bank statement converters, DocuClipper vs MoneyThumb, and the DocuClipper and ProperSoft comparisons.

Beyond QuickBooks and Quicken

MoneyThumb's converters centre on QuickBooks, Quicken and spreadsheets. If your clients use other accounting software, FlowParse writes the import CSV each program expects, in its own columns, from the same upload as the .QBO: Xero, Sage, FreeAgent, Wave, FreshBooks, Zoho Books, MYOB and NetSuite, plus a QuickBooks CSV for anyone who prefers it to Web Connect.

The point is to skip the mapping screen. A generic CSV makes you tell the accounting program which column is the date and whether withdrawals are negative; a file already in the program's layout imports in one step. Every one of these formats is included on every plan, the free one too.

Statements from banks outside the US

MoneyThumb's converters are built around QuickBooks and Quicken, which are mostly North American. A lot of FlowParse's statements come from European banks, and the extraction is built for them: column headers such as Datum, Buchungstag, Verwendungszweck, Soll and Haben, Libellé and Solde, Fecha and Importe, Data and Saldo are recognised as date, description, debit, credit, amount and balance, and amounts written the European way — 1.250,00 — are read as one thousand two hundred and fifty, not one point two five.

The plain CSV and Excel exports keep every column the bank printed, with English labels by default or the statement's own language if you prefer. The balance check runs the same way whatever the language, so a German Kontoauszug or a French relevé is proved against its own opening and closing balance before you export it.

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